{
 "id": "concept/ihtiba",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "ihtiba",
 "label": {
  "ar": "احتباء",
  "en": "Squatting with arms around the knees (ihtiba')"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الاحتباء في اللغة القعود على المقعدة وضم الفخذين إلى البطن مع الظهر بثوب أو باليدين، وهو عند الفقهاء كذلك. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} والفرق بينه وبين الإقعاء أن الاحتباء يتضمن ضم الفخذين والركبتين والالتزام بهما. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} وهو خارج الصلاة مباح ما لم يرافقه محظور كانكشاف العورة، والأولى تركه وقت الخطبة وعند انتظار الصلاة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715}",
  "en": "Ihtiba' in the lexicon is sitting on the buttocks with the thighs drawn to the belly and held by a cloth or the hands; the jurists use it in the same sense. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} It differs from iq'a, sitting on the buttocks with the knees raised, in that ihtiba' involves drawing both thighs and knees and holding them. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} Outside prayer it is lawful unless accompanied by something forbidden, such as exposure of the private parts; it is better left during the sermon and while waiting for prayer. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "development-of-law-theology-institutions"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، الجزء الثاني، ص 1715 وما بعدها من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w01-batch-25"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 0,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; summary-level from scan pages stated in the text; footnotes omitted; printed folios not verified; page images absent, text only"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الاحتباء في اللغة القعود على المقعدة وضم الفخذين إلى البطن مع الظهر بثوب أو باليدين، وهو عند الفقهاء كذلك. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} والفرق بينه وبين الإقعاء أن الاحتباء يتضمن ضم الفخذين والركبتين والالتزام بهما. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} وهو خارج الصلاة مباح ما لم يرافقه محظور كانكشاف العورة، والأولى تركه وقت الخطبة وعند انتظار الصلاة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ihtiba",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Ihtiba' in the lexicon is sitting on the buttocks with the thighs drawn to the belly and held by a cloth or the hands; the jurists use it in the same sense. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} It differs from iq'a, sitting on the buttocks with the knees raised, in that ihtiba' involves drawing both thighs and knees and holding them. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715} Outside prayer it is lawful unless accompanied by something forbidden, such as exposure of the private parts; it is better left during the sermon and while waiting for prayer. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ihtiba",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "احتباء لغت میں زمین پر بیٹھ کر ران کو پیٹ سے ملا کر کپڑے یا ہاتھوں سے جکڑنے کو کہتے ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.1715}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/ihtiba",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/add",
  "concept/adl",
  "concept/adwa",
  "concept/afw",
  "concept/ahd",
  "concept/ajal",
  "concept/ajir",
  "concept/ajnabi"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}